Getting rid of the evil delay caused by ShellExecute

Question

This is what bothered me for a while, and just need to solve it. Each time I call ShellExecute to open an external file (be it a document, executable file or URL), it causes a very long lock in my program before ShellExecute creates a new process and returns. Does anyone know how to solve or get around this?

EDIT: And, as the tags indicate, this is on Win32 using C ++.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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